"Then lobster, a slash of red and white claw meat in a lobster bordelaise so deeply flavored as to recall both veal stock and opium smoke, with cabbage to bind them together. And sturgeon, a rectangle of meat the color of ivory, with a sauce of reduced grape must and a grape-pumpkin marmalade. It's a mad hatter's dish, cooking out of Lewis Carroll."
-Alice In Wonderland is everywhere these days: movies, hip-hop, politics, and now restaurant reviews-Sam Sifton gives Colicchio & Sons three stars in today's Times. I'd complain about oversaturation. But that would be Petty.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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(giggling)
(snickering)
But what does Sam think about new math?
"For entrees, there is a wide wrist of monkfish, wrapped in pancetta and cooked crisp, atop braised red cabbage that's been dressed in black-truffle vinaigrette. The combination of flavors - sweet again, and salty, with a bite of acid - cross-references the varied textures like a math problem, or an Escher print."
Sam is a perfect rejoinder to low expectations.
Can we get this as a chess move?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq_WYdyaBXQ
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I'm more concerned that the Times's restaurant reviewers are intimately acquainted with the particular qualities of opium smoke.
You'd think, if Sifton were so well acquainted with the dens of iniquity, he'd at least use the term "stoner rock" correctly. I'm pretty sure my rack of rabbit isn't served up to Holy Mountain.
That Tom Petty video gave me so many "you're going to be eaten up" nightmares as a child.
It fueled many a dream for me.
Best Mad Hatter characterization to not appear in a Batman comic.
That video is soooo slick-80s in the best possible way. The Mad Hatter looks like he's been doing lines in the bathroom with the Dormouse for hours, waiting for Alice to show up.